Is man no more than this?

"Was it all a considered "statement", as the painter would have said, about accommodated and unaccommodated man?"

Act III, scene iv

KING LEAR

[Why,] thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies. Is man no more than this? Consider him well.

Thou owest the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume.

Ha! here's three on 's are sophisticated; thou art the thing itself,

unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art.

Off, off, you lendings! Come unbutton here.

Tearing off his clothes